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Specific acknowledgements

Aztecs Home area

• The photo of the jade and silver Aztec warrior figure (one of the pieces we take to schools) was taken by our good friend Annette Price - who also took all the photos in our visits brochure (downloadable from the Teachers’ Page/’Our flagship programme’). To contact Annette, to whom we owe special thanks, go to http://www.wild-water-pictures.co.uk/• Quotes on the Aztecs: the maize graphic, based on a glyph in the Codex Borbonicus, was created for us by John D. Starling - many thanks, John!• Frida Kahlo: the top two photos were taken by Ian Mursell; the small images were all scanned from our personal copy of the exhibition catalogue ‘Frida Kahlo’, edited by Emma Dexter and Tanya Barson, Tate Publishing 2005• Mexican Stamps: the codex image is from the Codex Laud (orignal in the Bodleian Library, Oxford)• Aztec Music Lecture: the musician image is from the Codex Selden (original in the Bodleian Library, Oxford).

Teachers’ Page area

• The original b/w glyph of an Aztec teacher is from ‘Huehuehtlahtolli: Testimonios de la Antigua Palabra’ by Miguel León-Portilla and Librado Silva Galeana, published in 1991 by the Secretaría de Educación Pública, Mexico City• Items for hire: both photos of our artefacts boxes were taken by Chris Tims• More about us: photo of the Aztec teponaztli by Ian Mursell/Mexicolore, photo of the two owls by (and with thanks to) Jim Wegryn.

Aztec Life area

We haven’t provided full publication details of the books cited: if you want these, please ask

All images from the codices have been scanned directly from the private collection of facsimiles owned by Mexicolore. We are in the process of contacting the museums and libraries that hold the original manuscripts to agree permissions and credit details. We will be adding references to individual codices in due course, but at this point it’s worth simply acknowledging the fact that most facsimiles have come from the excellent Austrian publishing house ADEVA, to whom we owe special thanks. For decades they have been the leading source of facsimiles of ancient manuscripts. Go to their website (link below)

Aztec Life area: ‘Tiger Top!’

Main picture: colour illustration commissioned for Mexicolore by Felipe Dávalos

• The illustration in the ‘Aztec lifecheck’ is taken from ‘Huehuehtlahtolli’ (details above)• The photo of whipping chocolate - in ‘(Cold) xocóatl’ - is from a postcard produced by Ediciones Tuluk in Mexico City - photo by David Maawad.

Aztec Stories area

The photo at the top of Popocatépetl from the air was taken by Ian Mursell

The painting of the two volcanoes is by Jesús Helguera and is from a calendar titled ‘La Leyenda de los Volcanes’, which we bought at a newsagents called ‘La Chulita’ in Mexico City

The photo of Iztaccíhuatl (follow link) was taken by Ian Mursell

The drawing of the dead woman is by Teresa Castelló Yturbide, one of a beautiful set called ‘El Traje Indígena en México’ published by the Secretaría de Educación Pública (SEP) and the Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia (INAH) in Mexico in 1965

The text and drawings of the legend of the creation of the moon are from the paperback by Ben Traven ‘The Creation of the Sun and the Moon’ (illustrations by Alberto Beltrán), published in 1977 by Lawrence Hill & Co./ Creative Arts Book Co., Westport, Berkeley (ISBN no. 0-88208-087-3) (first published in 1968). So far we have been unable to contact the publishers.

Photo of the chac mool figre at the Templo Mayor by Ian Mursell, photo of the chac mool at Chichen Itzá by Sean Sprague/Mexicolore

Mexican Masks page

With thanks to the following photogaphers for allowing us to reproduce their images of Mexican masks and head sculptures: Sean Sprague, Ian Pearson, Ian Mursell, Maricela González, Xavier Miró, Ernesto Zavala

Pic 12 Drawing of a stone teponaztli (based on an original in the Codex Magliabecchiano fol. 23) by Miguel Covarrubias, scanned from Alfonso Caso’s book ‘The Aztecs: People of the Sun’ (Norman, University of Oklahoma Press, 1958), p. 48

Our automated Gregorian/Aztec date reminder was designed and prepared by William Morris, who is an expert on calendrical systems and runs moonwise.co.uk (see link below)

Places to Visit

Brighton Museum: The first two photos on the page were taken by Ian Mursell. The photos of the obsidian head, the armadillo basket and the b/w photo of the interior of Brighton Aquarium are all courtesy of Royal Pavilion, Libraries and Museums, Brighton & Hove, with thanks to Kevin Bacon, Documentation & Digitisation Officer, Brighton Museum & Art Gallery

Haslemere Educational Museum: The image of the Tizoc Stone copy (top) was provided by the Museum; all the other ‘live’ pictures were taken by Ian Mursell and Graciela Sánchez; the 1824 London Exhibition illustration is courtesy of the Guildhall Library, Corporation of London; the image from the Florentine Codex was scanned from our own copy of the Club Internacional del Libro 3-volume facsimile edition, Madrid, 1994; the image from the Vindobonensis Codex was scanned with permission from our own copy of the ADEVA facsimile edition, Graz, Austria, 1974

Pic 3 Drawing of Quetzalcóatl (based on an original in the Codex Borbonicus fol. 22) by Miguel Covarrubias, scanned from Alfonso Caso’s book ‘The Aztecs: People of the Sun’ (Norman, University of Oklahoma Press, 1958), p. 19